Realise this is an old thread, but currently going through secondary school applications and interested in the music scholarships offered at Kingsdale. I've read the thread above but still puzzled - if, as I understand it, an offer of a scholarship does not guarantee a place at the school, why are the aptitude tests/auditions etc carried out when pupils are in year 6? Why not simply conduct internal auditions and tests at the start of the autumn term in year 7? Does anyone know what bearing the tests /auditions have on school places and why they conduct these pre - year 7?
